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Oregon State Victim Assistance Academy
The Oregon State Basic Victim Assistance Academy (Basic Academy) provides fundamental education for victim service providers and allied professionals who routinely interact with victims of crime. The August 2021 Basic Academy will be 100% virtual. This interactive, online format increases accessibility to critical advocacy training. There will be synchronous and asynchronous elements of the Basic
10:00 am
Serving Immigrant Survivors of Sexual Assault
Join Victim Rights Law Center’s National TA Director Jessica Mindlin and National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project Director Leslye Orloff, as we explore best practices and emerging issues when representing immigrant survivors of sexual violence. Specific topics to be addressed include a discussion of survivor safety and privacy, VAWA’s confidentiality protections and immigration cases (including what
12:00 pm
Confronting School Violence and Victimization
Jillian J. Turanovic, Ph.D and Krista R. Flannigan, J.D., will discuss the results of a large NIJ-funded meta-analysis on various forms of aggression and crime within K-12 schools. They will cover thirty different individual, school, and community risk and protective factors. Special focus will also be given to the victimization of LGBTQ youth at school.
1:00 pm
Confronting School Violence and Victimization
Learn about the results of a large NIJ-funded meta-analysis on the sources of school violence and victimization (Individual, Institutional, and Community Sources of School Violence: A Meta-Analysis). This review included various forms of aggression and crime within K-12 schools; and over thirty different individual, school, and community risk and protective factors. Special focus will also